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To: Golden Eagle

A turkish friend told me that you can buy Windoze XP for $1 on the streets of Istanbul. So, in some parts of the world, the competition is between two forms of "free" software.


26 posted on 08/27/2005 2:52:29 PM PDT by TomSmedley (Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
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To: TomSmedley
A turkish friend told me that you can buy Windoze XP for $1 on the streets of Istanbul. So, in some parts of the world, the competition is between two forms of "free" software.

That's obvioulsy stolen software, which doesn't really count as competition so much as it is a crime.

29 posted on 08/27/2005 2:55:51 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: TomSmedley
A turkish friend told me that you can buy Windoze XP for $1 on the streets of Istanbul. So, in some parts of the world, the competition is between two forms of "free" software.

One of them is a stolen product however. I personally don't believe in the US providing software welfare to the world, in any form. Our trade imbalance with foreign countries is great enough without us subsidizing them with freebies of anything.

47 posted on 08/27/2005 3:05:56 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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